Railway Cutting
IndustrialInert
Railway Cutting is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Dinnington. It received industrial and inert waste between 1969 and 1976, covering about 0.84 hectares. Reference EAHLD04780, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD04780 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Railway Cutting |
| Address | Off Mansfield Road, Norwood |
| Site operator | Mr W Richardson |
| Licence holder | Mr W Richardson |
| Licence issued | Not recorded |
| Licence surrendered | Not recorded |
| First waste input | 31 December 1969 |
| Last waste input | 31 December 1976 |
| Area | 0.84 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Not recorded |
| EA area | Lower Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 447500, 382000 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Industrial:
- factory and process waste. Contents vary widely — some benign, some not; the site's operator and era are the clues.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Rother Valley Country ParkCommercialInert
- Norwood Chemical WorksLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Disused Tip, Kiveton Park, Chesterfield CanalWaste types not recorded
- Canal to the east of Nethermoor LaneIndustrialInert
- Woodall RoadIndustrialInert
- Mansfield RoadIndustrialInert
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.